Choreographer

Kayoko Kumono

Former Takarazuka Girls' Revue Company

Born 1908 · TokyoDied 1991JapanEmpire of Japan

Kayoko Kumono was a Japanese choreographer, born in 1908 in Tokyo, who died in 1991.

Biography

Kayoko Kumono (1908 - 1991) (雲野かよ子 in Japanese, or くもの かよこ in kana) was the former Takarazuka Girls' Revue Company. She was a person in the class of the leading daughter of the Tsuki Troupe. She was born in Kanda-ku, Tokyo (now Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo). Her nickname was Hana-chan. Her stage name, along with her older sister, came from a poem by Henjō included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu.

Otome Amatsu who served as the top star and director of the Takarazuka Revue Moon Troupe, is her older sister. She also had a younger sister, Tsuruko Ikebe.

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Contemporaries

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